If you thought a KJV for every English school was bad...

[tattuchu]

"Base" text is right, Svarty

[Bella Fortuna]

Interesting in that it's only the New Testament. Bibles over here are never separated as such. At least I don't think they are. It's been a long time since I've held one in my hands.

Yeah, they are all the time. It's quite normal for evangelicals to give out paperback new testaments (they are super cheap in bulk).

Yep, I was going to say the same. Plus it helps them weed out some of the stuff they'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

[tattuchu]

Interesting in that it's only the New Testament. Bibles over here are never separated as such. At least I don't think they are. It's been a long time since I've held one in my hands.

Yeah, they are all the time. It's quite normal for evangelicals to give out paperback new testaments (they are super cheap in bulk).

Yep, I was going to say the same. Plus it helps them weed out some of the stuff they'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

But then why do the Bible lovers always quote the OT stuff the most

[Svartalf]

Interesting in that it's only the New Testament. Bibles over here are never separated as such. At least I don't think they are. It's been a long time since I've held one in my hands.

Yeah, they are all the time. It's quite normal for evangelicals to give out paperback new testaments (they are super cheap in bulk).

Yep, I was going to say the same. Plus it helps them weed out some of the stuff they'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

Which is funny since so many of them do tend to go all OT fire and brimstone on so many subjects... or is Rebbe Saul enough for that?

[Bella Fortuna]

Interesting in that it's only the New Testament. Bibles over here are never separated as such. At least I don't think they are. It's been a long time since I've held one in my hands.

Yeah, they are all the time. It's quite normal for evangelicals to give out paperback new testaments (they are super cheap in bulk).

Yep, I was going to say the same. Plus it helps them weed out some of the stuff they'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

But then why do the Bible lovers always quote the OT stuff the most

The evangelical "Good News" type people don't. They're all about Jesus and love.

[tattuchu]

The evangelical "Good News" type people don't. They're all about Jesus and love.

Oh. Well that does sound like Good News, then. Perhaps there's something to it all? I mean, I'm all for love

[Bella Fortuna]

The evangelical "Good News" type people don't. They're all about Jesus and love.

Oh. Well that does sound like Good News, then. Perhaps there's something to it all? I mean, I'm all for love

Me too. But even I draw the line at lovin' Da Jezus.

[rachelbean]

Interesting in that it's only the New Testament. Bibles over here are never separated as such. At least I don't think they are. It's been a long time since I've held one in my hands.

Yeah, they are all the time. It's quite normal for evangelicals to give out paperback new testaments (they are super cheap in bulk).

Yep, I was going to say the same. Plus it helps them weed out some of the stuff they'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

But then why do the Bible lovers always quote the OT stuff the most

There are plenty of Bible lovers who stick with the gospels and rather not be reminded of some of the other stuff. There is a big difference between a pentecostal baptist ala westbro and an evangelical ala THIS (the church I was raised in):

[Svartalf]

Ya hate Jooz or sumpin'?

[Bella Fortuna]

Ya hate Jooz or sumpin'?

Nah, just long-haired freaks in kaftans with holes in their hands.

[Svartalf]

Ya don't have holes in you ears? don't spit on adepts of extreme piercing.

[Bella Fortuna]

Ya don't have holes in you ears? don't spit on adepts of extreme piercing.

I have ten holes in each ear, as it happens.

I don't use them anymore, though.

[hackenslash]

But then why do the Bible lovers always quote the OT stuff the most

That depends entirely on which particular bit of apologetic bollocks they're engaged in at the time. If you're challenging them on why unruly children are no longer stoned to death in front of the town, or why it's suddenly OK to wear mixed fibres or eat shellfish, then it's the 'new covenant' drivel. OTOH, if it's the 'homosexuality is condemned' horseshit, then the OT is infallible.

That's apologetics for you.

[Audley Strange]

Both kids brought one of these home this afternoon. And it doesn't even have the really gory bits in.

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That is quite the most disturbing thing I've seen in a while. (The book ) So the public get pissed about dealers at schools but they hand out this kind of "REMEMBER YOU ARE A SERVANT TO MYSTERIOUS HIGHER POWERS" bullshit to children.

To children?!

Who paid for this, "we should lynch the bloody lot of them" as they might say in the red tops.

[Thinking Aloud]

Both kids brought one of these home this afternoon. And it doesn't even have the really gory bits in.

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What the...

Who exactly gave these to them? Was it the school themselves, or some god-nut visiting the school to do a 'guest' assembly or something?

Looking up the website listed in the introduction, it appears that it's a project by some evangelising arm of the CofE, who have sold around 650000 to groups, churches and individuals to give out. So my guess is that some well-meaning arse has bought a bunch and distributed them to the local schools as a gift.

The introductory text also tells the impressionable young reader that the NT contains "eyewitness accounts of the life of Jesus". NO IT DOESN'T! Stop lying!

And there's also a lot of stuff about Jesus and the Queen.